Upon completion of this 3-day course, participants will have a solid understanding of Tableau software. The course contains session material that covers both fundamental and advanced concepts for creating worksheets, dashboards, and stories in Tableau. Advanced topics such as table calculations, parameters, filters, user-defined calculations (i.e. variables) and level of detail expressions will be covered. Participants will be taught how to use dashboard actions to create interactivity between dashboard components and how to “drill-down” into more dashboards containing additional detail for specific data elements. The web authoring capabilities of Tableau Server will also be covered.

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Day 1

Who is this course intended for?

This course is intended for those new to Tableau wanting to learn the basics of creating Tableau worksheets.

Who is this course intended for?

This course is intended for those new to Tableau Server but with a solid understanding of Tableau Desktop Professional. The course will provide an overview of the Tableau Server architecture, how to manage users, permissions and data sources – and other administrative responsibilities.

What will I learn?

Upon completion of this course, participants will understand of the functionality available within Tableau server. This will include to creating Tableau sites and projects and assigning user and user groups with specific permissions. In addition, publishing extracts and scheduling refreshes of data extracts, subscriptions and alerts will be covered. Automating certain server tasks will also be covered.

Learn how Tableau can connect to Business Objects Webi, Crystal and Deski reports via Infoburst. Deployment and scheduling of BO content to Tableau will be demonstrated. The use cases for Tableau dashboards with BO content will be discussed. And if we have time we may look at bursting out Tableau workbooks as well.

Speaker: Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol Inc.

Rajesh Ponnurangam is a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant with Infosol. He is a SAP certified associate with extensive experience in design and development of Business Intelligence applications for apparel, retail, consumer goods and manufacturing industries. He specializes in Business Objects solutions, SAP HANA and BW data modeling. He has a proven track record in designing strategies for ETL, BI application development, implementation, rollout and support.